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Dirty Basements
02:30
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I don't wanna wake to find you tied up to a white collar/...trading your freedom and your life just for penny's on the dollar./ now I'm not saying things don't change, cus I know they always do/ I just wanna hold onto these memories of playing In dirty basements with you..../ we all have a certain path./ we all have a life to choose./ some choose comfort and an suv../ some choose poverty and the blues/ now I hope when this night is over/ when you head back to your car/ that you just remember and you don't forget/ just who exactly the hell you are// cus this scene means more to me/ than just mowhawks and back patches/ it's the music of our lives/ sung against the general masses/ just don't trade in your fucking life/ for some nickleback cd/ we all have to grow old someday/ but they never said we could not be free/.........so when this song is over/ when I've hit the final chord/ I hope the fires still inside your heart/ I hope you never get too bored/ and someday you can show your kids all the music that you know/ I say long live D.I.Y, power chords and dirty basement shows/ dirty basement shows
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How Do I Threaten You
02:44
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Well you made it through the two years
In the police academy
Leaving the monsters under your bed
To chase the monsters on the streets
With the law on your side and a gun
Seems there's nothing you can
But I have to ask please officer
How do i threaten you?
Well you will search my car
Without a warrant or consent
If I protest my human rights
You tell me I'm resisting arrest
take down a disabled man
Because he looks at you wrong
What can you do but
I have to ask one more time
How do i threaten you
Because the law is the law
It must always be upheld
Rodney King and Kelly Thomas
They know that rule very well
But your prisons are made for profit
And you gotta make your quota
Before two
Gotta find yourself a stranger
Tell him he threatened you
The colors of our nation
They are red white and blue
Meant to represent our freedom
Except when i come around you
So as i sit in the back of your cop car
Borken down blacked out bloody and blue
I have to ask just one more time
How do i threaten you
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Hospital Bed
02:44
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Somewhere hidden between
The spraypaint and slashed tires down the street
I left my old life down in the dirt
Broken bottles of glass and cracks in the concrete
The sidewalk leads us straight to the gas station store
Do we grow up when we start smoking?
Do we get old when we're strapped into a hospital bed?
Down in St. Augustine
Somewhere off old st. George St.
I was playing guitar and eating pizza fore free
This down is a face and it's teeth are these buildings
And it keeps getting punched right square in the mouth
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Travelin Fool
01:53
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Well I never cared too much for marriage..
I just want a friend to walk with me through the night...
Ya I want you by my side ya when I hop out on that freight, catching out on that southbound toward to Florida line...
Well I could never offer you much for diamonds, but I know money was never really your thing
Cause your beauty shines more brighter than any rock stuck in a mind..
When I hear your voice it's like an angel sings..
Playing music on the sidewalk when we ain't got no cash. Getting lost in the ghetto of a small town
Ya as we close in on different paths full of adventure in our lives..
I just know someday well swing back around
Well I don't know just where my life is headed
I just hope wherever I go I'll still be free
And I hope wherever I end up out on that beaten path
Hope someday your there to walk beside me
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Last Bus to Pittsburgh
01:10
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I had no Idea in the very beginning
I had no control I had no control
I took the pocket change out of my jacket
Jumped on the last bus headed to Pittsburgh
I get too excited when seeing the exits pointing toward Interstate 79
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Billy Pontius Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Billy Pontius on these recordings is
Dave Pawlack-piano, washboard, banjo and vocals
Robert Martin-
guitar, bass and vocals
Steve Easter-guitar and vocals
Piano on the "Pity Party" album is by Tom Perkins of On The Farm Studio
... more
Billy Pontius recommends:
The Stolen Stitches // Steve Easter - SPLIT (2014)
by Stolen Stitches
The Stolen Stitches / Steve Easter (I Came From Earth!)
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Traveling Sideshow
by The Stolen Stitches musical sideshow
The Stolen Stitches Traveling Sideshow
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The Owl on the One Dollar Bill (2012)
by I Came From Earth
I Came From Earth!
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